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...everybody must recognize the determination which the nine thus shows to put in good work at every opportunity. Let the nine keep on in the good course it has begun and we will prophesy for it, if not certain success, at least a series of hard-fought and closely contested games with Yale. We congratulate the nine on the early arrangements of dates for its games with the Yale freshmen. They will thus avoid the bother and uncertainty which so seriously inconvenienced...
...great corporations. The students of Harvard expect to be the lenders in such organizations. They will expect those under them to be temperate. Is it fair, is it manly, for them to indulge themselves while depriving others of the privilege? He first became a total abstainer through a poor hard-drinking Irishman whom he tried to reform. He could not play fair with him unless he agreed to shut off drinking himself...
...teams from '83 and '86 are hard at work in preparation for next Saturday's contest. '83 is the favorite...
...sparring in the last athletic meeting was open to no objection except from those who object to having any sparring whatever at the meetings. The contestants were cautioned not to indulge in much hard hitting, and the result showed that no one lost by this restraint. The hissing by some of the decision given by gentlemen who have been kind enough to act as judges in our sports, was as ungentlemanly as it was uncalled for, and we were glad to see that the majority of the audience showed their condemnation of it by their applause...
...Bachelder, 149 lbs.; J. H. B. Easton, 170 1/8 lbs., anchor; total, 597 1/8. '84 - J. B. Walker. 145 lbs.; A. R. Crane, 141 lbs.; L. V. LeMoyne, 150 lbs.; G. Kemp, 159 7/8 lbs., anchor; total, 595 7/8. The teams had been practising hard for the past week, and most of the interest of the meeting centred in this event. '84 was for a long time unquestionably the favorite, but during the past week '83's stock had risen so that on Saturday the chances were considered about even, '84 being still a little the favorite...